bird SEED :: Invasive Species
Who Blue Hill Heritage Trust, the SEED Barn & University of Maine Extension
What Invasive Species Workshop
When Saturday Sept 29th, 9a to 11a
Where Blue Hill Consolidated School
The Blue Hill Heritage Trust and SEED Barn are teaming up with Marjorie Peronto, invasive species specialist of the University of Maine Extension Office to eradicate invasive weeds at the Blue Hill Consolidated School. Join us THIS Saturday for a public workshop on recognizing and removing invasive bittersweet, burning bush and barberry.
Following the workshop on invasives, Lee Lee from the SEED Barn will demonstrate how to ferment an sow fresh native seeds from keystone trees and other woody native plants, including viburnums, dogwood and wild cherry. Participants are invited to take home seeds for several keystone species and try growing them out at home.
Over the course of 2 weeks, the entire student body will learn about invasives, why they are a problem for local ecologies and how to get rid of them, acting as community leaders to help reduce invasive species in our town. This is the final segment of bird SEED, a series of seasonal events that creatively explores our relationship with birds and how to augment their native habitat. Because birds may spread the seeds from invasive berries like bittersweet just as easily as they can spread seeds from native plants, it's important to recognize what we are offering as a food source for the berry eating birds that visit our gardens.
This series of invasive species workshops at the Consolidated School will kick off a long term restoration effort to reintroduce native plants to the school's grounds and establish a branch of the network of living seed libraries facilitated by the SEED Barn. Along with other schools around the peninsula, students will be able to cultivate native plants from seed to establish gardens at their schools. You are welcome to participate by bringing ripe native berries from your gardens to share with the school community, as we will be planting them over the next two weeks. Eventually they will bring seeds from their school gardens to restore public access lands stewarded by the Blue Hill Heritage Trust so they may experience the full cycle of restoration.
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